Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter – MyCreativity Reader

book – Institute of Network Cultures – ISBN13: 9780826418456
Printed as the conference proceedings of the homonymous two days conference, this reader take the “creative industries” concept by the UK Blair government in 1997 and much discussed in Richard Florida’s best-seller “The Creative Class” as starting point to dissect and mostly expose the huge contradiction in the promiscuity between creation and capital. The dot com (before unveiling as a bubble) induced some European capitals area to be all of a sudden gentrified, hosting the new online corporation headquarters, and so recognizing it a crucial role in the tertiary industry. Moreover the industry of culture massively recruited most of the Creative Generation, mesmerized by the mirage of a pleasurable form of immaterial labor. In the text there are different essays about the creative processes and their mythology as well as specific regional analysis (Ireland, UK, Austria, China, etc.) and also another masterly text by Brian Holmes deconstructing the U.S. based “Research Triangle”. If the commodification of everything can be contrasted with innovative lines of thought (the “gift economy” for example), it’s also important to “dismantle the buzz-machine”, as it is well done here.